Wikipedia Update
In case you didn’t realise it, I have my very own Wikipedia page. I don’t know who set it up, or who edits it, but it does seem to get updated regularly. Fortunately these updates are reasonably sensible and generally accurate.
I recently noticed that it has been updated again:
I wouldn’t say it was “pathological”, but it is indeed the case that I don’t like harpsichords (or, to be more accurate, I don’t like the noise they produce).
One day I might edit the page myself, but other than being a cosmologist who hates harpsichords I’m not sure there’s enough else to me that’s worth putting there!
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March 19, 2017 at 12:38 pm
You can find some info about who’s been editing it at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Coles&action=history
I don’t suppose you’d be willing to share a photo of yourself under a Creative Commons license so that it could be used in the article? See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard
Please don’t edit the page yourself, but if anything’s wrong or if you can point out things that can be added, please do so on the talk page for it – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Peter_Coles . Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest
March 19, 2017 at 12:40 pm
Somebody told me on Facebook that one is not supposed to edit one’s own Wikipedia page. I hadn’t realised, but at least it shows I haven’t tried to do it!
March 19, 2017 at 12:46 pm
Am I allowed to upload a picture of myself, or is that bad form too?
March 19, 2017 at 12:54 pm
Uploading a picture of yourself is absolutely fine (and encouraged!), it’s changing the text that tends to cause problems.
March 19, 2017 at 12:56 pm
I have admit I have seen many biog pages that very much look like they were written by the person in the article!
March 19, 2017 at 2:23 pm
BTW, I’ve rewritten / expanded the article a bit now!
March 20, 2017 at 2:33 am
According to JDB’s Wiki page, one of his doctoral students was Mark Madsen, the US basketball player….I don’t recall Mark been 6ft 9″ tall.
March 20, 2017 at 10:40 am
There were a few others that were links to articles about the wrong person too… I think I’ve removed them all now, but if I missed any then please correct them!
March 20, 2017 at 10:34 am
I’ve corrected the blog name in the article. ‘Statistics’ is a separate item in that list, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics says “Statistics is a branch of mathematics”…
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